There’s a growing clamor for producers of plastic packaging to pay the costs of recycling their materials. On March 25, two Democratic congressmen from California and Oregon introduced a bill that would make such “Extended Producer Responsibility” (EPR) mandatory across the country, reports Waste Dive. That bill follows efforts within at least seven states to…
Manipulated Science: Not Even a ‘Noble Lie’
Sterling Burnett lays out the manipulation of science that perpetuates fear that we are in a “climate crisis.”(On TownHall.) “We are constantly being warned by activists, politicians, and some climate scientists that we face a climate crisis; that if humanity collectively doesn’t alter its lifestyle and consumption patterns now, the world will end in 10…
Biden’s ’30 by 30′ Plan: 30 percent of U.S. Land ‘Protected’ by 2030
President Biden plans to raise the percentage of land “protected” in the United States from about 12 percent to 30 percent over the next nine years. That would mean protecting an additional area more than four times the size of California. From the White House fact sheet: “The order commits to the goal of conserving…
Massachusetts on a ‘Fool’s Errand’?
At 5 million acres, Massachusetts represents .0021 percent of the United States’ acreage (and an infinitesimal portion of global land) but it is marching ahead with a plan to commit itself to zero emissions from fossil fuels by 2050. In January, the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill to that effect. Governor Charles Baker sent it…
Climate Frenzy: A Modern Version of the Crusades
William Happer, emeritus professor of physics at Princeton and an expert on climate, recently explained why today’s “climate frenzy” is not a crisis. Happer spoke at a seminar sponsored by Hillsdale College. Among the highlights: “The best way to think about the frenzy over climate is to consider it a modern version of the medieval…
The Grim Debate over Deaths from Air Pollution
Some very smart people are trying to figure out whether, where, and to what extent air pollution is a killer. Most recently, Tyler Cowen wrote in Marginal Revolution about a new study claiming that 10.2 million people die from pollution by fine particulates (particles 2.5 microns or lower) each year. Sixty-two percent of those premature…